Now that the Humble Choice is out, I can finally make my Steam sale purchases, and I'm interested in playing a game that is like Skyrim but isn't Skyrim. Think: open-world, exploration, open-ended, RPG, etc. It doesn't have to necessarily tick all of those boxes though. The ones I'm most interested in are the open-world and exploration parts.

Anyway, I'm open to any and all recommendations that could be described as "Skyrim-like".

Also, I've played the older Elder Scrolls games, as well as the 3D Fallouts, so no need to recommend those. While I liked the Fallouts, I'm hankering for something that's more fantasy-inspired than post-apocalyptic right now.

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Boundless ? no idea if any good but just noticed the extra free game on humble choice ;p

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Did you play Enderal: Forgotten Stories? It's a free total conversion for Skyrim that's quite good.

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+1

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance, The Witcher 3 & Red Dead Redemption 2.

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After playing it for a few hours, I was REALLY surprised how "Elder-Scrolls-Like" RDR2 actually is o_O Never expected that from a Rockstar game.

+1 to all three recommendations!

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Witcher 3 the best, wonderful story

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+, great mod

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Ah, you were first I^v^I

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Does it work with SSE? I can't find oldrim anywhere cheaply (even though I really cannot run newrim on my PC's GPU, and upgrading is not an option), and so am hoping.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a solid medieval open world rpg. Its more like realistic/historical medieval than fantasy, no magic or different races or monsters.

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+1

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Great game, a real hidden gem. It's not on sale cause the remaster will be comming out in August.

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A lot of fun

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Definitely +1

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+1

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I haven't personally played it, but I feel The Witcher 3 would be a good comparison not only for having similar elements but also being well loved by the gaming community. Kingdom Come: Deliverance might also be worth looking into and if you do collect the free games on Epic Games Store, you probably own it.

And personally I really liked The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild (haven't finished it). Only for Nintendo Wii U and Switch though. I had a hard time getting into Skyrim, but I found it relativity easy to get into BOTW. I also liked the whole climbing and gliding aspect of the game. And finally I just like the Zelda series so that probably helped. I feel like it's quite a bit different from Skyrim though, mainly that Zelda games aren't too heavy on RPG aspects and have more of a puzzle/exploration focus over questing (There are quests though).

And if you like stealth games and just to shake things up. Metal Gear Solid V might be worth looking into. I only played the prologue game (MGSV: Ground Zeroes), and I had a lots of fun. And like Zelda, i just really love the Metal gear Solid series.

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Witcher 3 is must-play

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Have you looked into No Man's Sky? It's gone from launch fiasco to widely appreciated.

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Horizon Zero Dawn looks pretty damn sweet, IMO. Be aware it doesn't become available on Steam until August 7th.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition is a really decent open-world fantasy RPG, I had a lot of fun with it (twice); it has also recently arrived to Steam. Elex can actually be pretty enjoyable (just don't forget the mod that disables urinating sound - yes, it's really an issue in one of the locations unless you're a manly man who's ok with this stuff every couple of minutes).

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Gothic 1-3
Risen 1-3
ELEX
The Witcher 3
Divinity 2: Ego Draconis
The Elder Scrolls: Online

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Yes to all.

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Excluding Gothic 4 : ArcaniA? I know it's not as amazing as 1-3 but it is still a good game!

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I hear lots of good things about Kenshi though I haven't sat down to play it yet myself.

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Conan Exiles

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Gothic 1-3 IMO are a must have.

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A must-have for all Skyrim fans. And it's completely free. You are so welcome: https://store.steampowered.com/app/933480/Enderal_Forgotten_Stories/

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does it/can it be made to work with Newrim? Steam has removed the Oldrim DLC from the store, it seems

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Sadly, I have no idea. But maybe robilar5500 above will know something about it (just click the link) :) They also recommended it.

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Thank you!

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horizon zero dawn is kinda sorta like that, as is kingdom come deliverance, i think?
i had tons of fun in dragon age origins ultimate

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Greed Fall maybe https://store.steampowered.com/app/606880/GreedFall/ and others games already mentioned.
Middle Earth: Shadow of War

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I think the Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen are similar, include open world, fantasy, dragon....waiting for a new game in this series :))

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Two Worlds

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Not this, anything but this.

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Ultima 7

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Closed 3 years ago by ruteqube.